An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too! — William Cowper Copy Share Image
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
I suddenly realised, hey, I'm not a lazy idiot, I'm an idler! It's something to aspire to, it's part of the creative… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to… — Dominique Fernandez Copy Share Image
“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
In both word and deed, one of the greatest idlers of all time was John Lennon. In his songs we see repeated… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Idleness as a waste of time is a damaging notion put about by its spiritually vacant enemies. The fact that idling can… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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